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How to Use Accurate Data for Strategic Decision-Making

Strategy Driven

Running your own business involves a lot of decision-making, from figuring out how many employees to hire to when to roll out your next marketing campaign. Rather than make an impulsive decision, successful businesses make informed decisions based on accurate, current information. What kind of data?

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Six Ways to See the World through New Lenses—and Lead More Effectively

Leading Blog

Senior managers at Allianz Global Investors, a global asset management company, attended a workshop called Dialogue in the Dark, led by visually impaired trainers who conducted the entire workshop in total darkness. What extreme step you can take to experience and lead yourself differently?

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How To Start Your Own Online Business?

Strategy Driven

With a conventional business that choice consistently conveyed an incredible danger since you needed to “invest” your own money before you could get something fully operational. In any case, when beginning an online business there are extra techniques you can utilize to test the market. Start your business plan.

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Venture Capitalists Get Paid Well to Lose Money

Harvard Business Review

Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record portfolio company exits and distributions from VC funds. A VC firm is, first and foremost, an investment vehicle created to generate returns for investors that exceed those available in the fully liquid, low cost public equity markets.

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Universities Are Missing Out on an Explosive Growth Sector: Their Own

Harvard Business Review

One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit , where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. The business models of universities are being challenged, and it looks like the universities are out to lunch.

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Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2011

Harvard Business Review

While "running out" isn't really the right phrase, it's clear that delivering many commodities to market is getting harder and more expensive (we don't dig for oil a mile under the ocean for the heck of it). The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. Right now, the U.S.

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Stop Assuming Your Data Will Bring You Riches

Harvard Business Review

Or a healthcare data offering evaluating physicians’ perceptions on a new drug may be useful not only to brand managers at pharmaceutical companies, but also to portfolio managers at asset management firms seeking to find promising investment opportunities.